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Glah posted:Haha, can't think of a better way to reverse popular anti-american feelings about all those wars in ME than this. Sometimes, only Nixon can go to China. Other times, only Nixon can bomb the hell out of Cambodia.
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Al-Saqr posted:
Their MO is usually to have the politicians build the stadiums as bribes to the NFL.
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:
Literally the mafia.
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blowfish posted:And having the largest foreign policy triumph in decades be about loving football executives (and not, say, eliminating world hunger or lucking into backing the right guys in the middle east) is pathetic. replace world hunger with world obesity.
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sullat posted:Anyone know why the construction in Qatar has been so deadly? A few major accidents, or just workers being forced to work in 130 degree heat without water or shade? They're literally using slave labor and it's been during the summer too. The coolest month in Doha is January and the temperatures average around 17 C. Right now (i.e., May) the average is 31 C. computer parts fucked around with this message at 14:22 on May 31, 2015 |
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Albinator posted:That would be positively balmy. The average summertime daily high is over 40C. That's the wonders of a desert climate, high highs and low lows.
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tsa posted:America doesn't give a gently caress about FIFA, but this idea that americans don't like soccer is kinda from the 80s. It's second only to baseball w.r.t the number of households who have at least 1 person playing, it's more popular than hockey, etc. If you exclude children this number goes down by a very large amount (and you should exclude children because next to none of them keep up interest in the sport after they reach a certain age).
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Total Meatlove posted:Isn't that retention rate increasing as parents stop their kids playing gridiron for health reasons and the kids realise football is cool and good? The people who send their kids to American Football don't have them play soccer in the first place (because they're in training camps since the age of 8 or so).
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blowfish posted:Why does America have ginormous college stadiums (and even high school stadiums College Football acts as a minor league of sorts and it is also extremely popular. Tons of college stadiums are actually much larger than professional stadiums (because they use benches a lot of times instead of dedicated seats). Of the top 10 largest stadiums in the world, 8 are for American Football, and 7 are college stadiums, and all of these have a capacity of at least 100,000.
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Cliff Racer posted:Well the same cities host that every year and its the traditional ones that had been hosting big bowls for fifty plus years. Unless they changed it up to not just be some of the default big bowl games? There's a rotating schedule of the New Year's bowls to host the playoffs (Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton, Fiesta, and Peach Bowls). The championship game is apparently by bid though, so there's some potential for corruption there. foobardog posted:It could be a bigger deal if or more likely, when, they expand the playoffs. Either they'll have to continue having bowls represent semis/quarterfinals, or it'll just be a thing bid on like who and where host the March Madness games. You won't really see an issue with that unless they expand the playoffs beyond 12 teams due to the above rotation, and I don't think anyone really wants that (at most people want 8 teams).
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